Were The Titanic And Olympic SWAPPED? #shorts

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Oceanliner Designs explores the design, construction, engineering and operation of history’s greatest vessels– from Titanic to Queen Mary and from the Empress of Ireland to the Lusitania. Join maritime researcher and illustrator Michael Brady as he tells the stories behind some of history's most famous ocean liners and machines!

[notdll]

When the ocean finally claims the last pieces of the titanic, “the titanic never existed” conspiracies will start.

[thelandofnod]

Titanic was horribly under insured, so if you wanted to commit insurance fraud this would be the dumbest way to do it.

[mrtom]

The short answer...they weren't

The long answer...they were not

[francescotravi]

No matter how similar two ships may be, they are built differently! Even if the designs and the shipyard that built her were the same, the second ship will have been built by solving the problems meet with the first.
Furthermore, each ship has its own characteristics so it is really impossible that they had been exchanged

[Yetaxa]

What I most find hard to believe is the idea that they could have intentionally sunk it in the first place.
Icebergs were not monitored like they are now, so to find that specific huge iceberg, in the middle of the atlantic ocean, in the middle of a very dark night, and cause damage *just* enough to sink the ship takes a lot of skill

[CaptainColdyron]

These conspiracy nuts conveniently ignore the fact that it would have taken months to switch the two ships. Not the few days that the ships were in the shipyard together after Olympic’s accident. Not to mention the hundreds of shipyard employees that would have had to be in on it and then stayed mum about the whole thing for decades after.

[poorNOOB]

Another fun fact: At the time of Titanic's sinking in 1912, Olympic didn't have Palor suites on board, in fact, her entire first class cabins on b deck didn't stretch all the way out to her superstructure outer shell and still featured a first class wrap around promenade, similar to her a deck, until her refit that happened in 1913(***NOPE, it was Cafe Parisian that got added onto Olympic that year, not the cabins extension, which happened in 1928, my apology) that replaced her wrap around promenade with stretched cabins all the way out a la Titanic style, but even with this refitted, White Star and Harland & Wolff didn't even alter her b deck's windows pattern one bit, which was also different from Titanic from the beginning.
Edit1: correction to that It was Cafe Parisian that got added in 1913, not cabins extension, extended cabins arrived in 1928.

[rctLP]

Olympic and Titanic were only 40 days together in Dock. Due to Titanic and Olympic being structurally quite different, having the names and yard number of the ships on each fork, plate, rivet and beam, this would take way more than 40 days, even with thousands of workers. You would effectivly need to change the whole ship.

Also while diving to the Titanic a lot of peaces were recovered which all have Titanics Yard Number 401 on them. Also also, many sailors on Titanic were already on Olympic before and remarked (since they knew Olympic quite well) how great many of the differences and changes were, that were made to Titanic.

And titanic was extremely underinsured and White Star lost massive amounts of reputation and money due to this disaster

[thestonedabbot]

Another point: That photo which looks like Titanics name has been crudely painted onto the hull, thats from when the photographer got a black pen and decided to draw over the letters on the photo negative to make them stand out

[generalgrievous]

Titanic Animations has a great video on debunking the insurance swap theory, which pretty much says that some people claim that while Olympic was in for repairs after colliding with the Hawke for forty days, they stripped both ships down, while Titanic was still being fitted out, redesigned Olympic to be more like Titanic and vice versa, and reinstalled the fittings meant for Titanic on Olympic...when the fitting out period alone took more than one hundred days on one ship! The more details you look at about the claim, the more nonsensical it gets.

[zacharygriffin]

This is the most easily debunked myth with the simple fact that 15000 working class Irishmen worked on these ships and none of them ever came forward to say that this happened

[patrickstewart]

Enclosed Promenade. Titanic had it. Olympic didn’t. And it’s not something you could easily swap out or apparently even add because it was never added to the Olympic in her long service life. And that’s where this theory ends.

[LtSkEt]

This is one of many reasons as to why I hate conspiracy theories. They take a nugget of truth and expand upon it without any verifiable evidence or common sense…

[lander]

In a book somewhere that has that first photo in this video, it said the name Titanic was added in by the photographer at a later time and was not actually visible when the photo was taken

[ericremotesteam]

This conspiracy theory is so absurd on its face I don't even know where to begin asking questions. Lmao
I love your videos!

[Indarow]

Not to mention the extremely lavish interior of Titanic that Olympic did not have.

You can’t just “swap them out”

[EnglishOak]

It was actually painted by hand. A 19yr apprentice called Jack.D.D. painted it 6 months before it's maiden & only journey.

[davinp]

The weekend when both Olympic and Titanic were docked would not be enough time to switch the ships because there would be a lot of items to be moved. Also, both ships were not 100% identical. It was a made up story about ships being switched

[omarbaba]

People who believe this theory genuinely know absolutely nothing about titanic at all

[ferretneck]

Would love to see a full video on this Mike if you had the time! Fascinating debunking the conspiracy theories